Man drowns in window well after floods

September 16, 2008 5:00:08 PM PDT

OAK LAWN --

Flooding has claimed the life of an elderly, southwest suburban man. It happened Saturday in Oak Lawn. Eighty-three-year-old Eduardas Jokubauskas was trying to bail water out of a window well when he accidentally fell in and drowned.

His home was less than a block from the flooded Stony Creek in Oak Lawn.